Santa María la Real de Nieva

Coordinates: 41°4′14″N 4°24′23″W / 41.07056°N 4.40639°W / 41.07056; -4.40639
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Santa María la Real de Nieva
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Santa María la Real de Nieva is a municipality located in the

INE
), the municipality had a population of 1,193 inhabitants.

Villages

View of Our Lady of Soterraña Monastery's cloister at Santa Maria la Real de Nieva.

This municipality includes 14 villages:[2]

  • Aragoneses
  • Balisa
  • Hoyuelos
  • Jemenuño
  • Laguna Rodrigo
  • Miguel Ibáñez
  • Ochando
  • Paradinas
  • Pascuales
  • Pinilla-Ambroz
  • Santa María la Real de Nieva
  • Santovenia
  • Tabladillo
  • Villoslada

The History

All its villages, except Santa María la Real de Nieva village, were repopulated in the 11th century after the region's

muslem invasion, in a piece of open ground where the village is now.[4] This fact was considered a miracle, and the Queen ordered the building of a sanctuary and a village around it, to the worship of this Virgin's image,[4] called Soterraña, an old Spanish word that means 'subterranean'.[5] The Crown proclaimed some privileges to foster the settlement in the village on 1395 and 1407, like tax and conscription exemptions.[3][6]

Gothic facade of Our Lady of Soterraña Church.

During her stay in Santa María la Real de Nieva, Queen Blanche I of Navarre died on April 1, 1441, and she was buried at its church.[7]

On October 28, 1473, King Henry IV called a meeting of the Courts of Castile at Santa Maria's monastery.[8]

During the revolt of the Comuneros in 1520, Rodrigo Ronquillo, chief of royal troops in the area, set his headquarters in Santa Maria la Real de Nieva, and lost a battle near the town.[8]

In the 1834 territorial reorganization of Spain, Santa María la Real de Nieva became one of the five

legal districts in Province of Segovia.[9]

Santa María la Real de Nieva's municipality grew by the adding of the surrounding villages; Ochando and Pascuales (1965); Aragoneses, Balisa, Hoyuelos, Laguna Rodrigo, Miguel Ibañez, Pinilla-Ambroz, Tabladillo, and Villoslada (1969); Jemenuño, Santovenia, and Paradinas (1970).[9]

Monuments

There are three national monuments in the municipality:[10]

  • Monastery of Our Lady of Soterraña, in Santa Maria la Real de Nieva town, is a 15th-century Gothic building notable by its cloister and facade.
  • Chapel of Saint Michael, in Villoslada, is a small Romanesque temple built between 12th and 13th centuries.
  • Church of Our Lady of Assumption, in Paradinas, is a 16th-century Gothic building with some neoclassical elements.

References

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ^ Municipality in Town Hall's Web.
  3. ^ a b (in Spanish) Antonio Miguel Yurami y Antonio Sánchez Sierra (1995), Historia de la aparición de la taumaturga ymagen de nuestra Señora la Soterraña de Nieva. pp. 59-66.
  4. ^ a b (in Spanish) Antonio Miguel Yurami y Antonio Sánchez Sierra (1995), Historia de la aparición de la taumaturga ymagen de nuestra Señora la Soterraña de Nieva. pp. 48.
  5. Royal Spanish Academy
    's dicctionary.
  6. ^ (in Spanish) Felipe Molinero’s article. Se cumple el VI centenario de los privilegios de Catalina de Lancaster in El Adelantado de Segovia.
  7. ^ (in Spanish) Nerea Alejos. Ujué, fortaleza de devoción in el Diario de Navarra.
  8. ^ a b (in Spanish) Carlos Arnanz Ruiz, (1972) Santa Mª. la real de Nieva. Edited by the Town Hall.
  9. ^ a b (in Spanish) Santa María la Real de Nieva in Segovia Province Administration's web.
  10. ^ (in Spanish) Municipality monuments in the Spanish Culture Ministry.

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